Top 25 Platforms Startup Investors in Switzerland (October 2023)

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• Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.

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• Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
• Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
• PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.

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• Zoovu — Zoovu is the next generation digital commerce search platform that merges context and meaning across channels to help brands and retailers have rich, personalized conversations with their customers. Zoovu’s proprietary AI naturally understands and speaks the customer’s language by turning technical specs into an easy-to-understand conversation.Ultimately adapting to the customer’s conversation style to help better engage, educate and empower them in making purchase decisions in the moments that matter. With Zoovu's world-class semantic library you can easily interpret the context and intent behind your customers' every search.More than 3,500 brands and retailers use Zoovu to engage, educate and empower shoppers to find and buy the right product, including Amazon, P&G, Whirlpool and Microsoft. Zoovu operates worldwide in 500+ product categories, across all languages.
• Imverse — Imverse is an EPFL spin-off and a 3D graphics software company providing volumetric software components for tech companies creating products and services for the markets of installations, live broadcasting, and telepresence. Using their proprietary patent pending voxel engine, Imverse envisions to enable the 3D future of content & communicationthrough groundbreaking graphics technology.
• Syntheticus — Generate high-quality and compliant synthetic data at scale, that perfectly mimics real-world data tailored to your business and analytics needs.

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• Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
• Firstbird — Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

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• Helio — Carbon Aware Cloud Computing.
• Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
• Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.

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• Aepsy — Finde Psychologinnen oder Psychologen, die zu dir und deinem Anliegen passen. Freite Termine und kostenlose Intros jederzeit online.
• Fermify — We are here to domesticate microorganisms and build simple and fully automated production platform to address the issue of large-scale milk protein production
• Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

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• Mindgard — Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against Artificial Intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape.
• Neko Health — Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech business. Its ambition is to build a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy by focusing on prevention and early detection. Neko has created a new medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for thegeneral people.
• Dexory — Robotics, AI, automation, digital twin technology, data-led, inventory checks

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• Pulse Industrial — Pulse Industrial is using IoT to reduce steam loss in industrial plants by remote monitoring of steam traps in real-time to detect failures.
• Tvarit — Reduce Rejections in Casting with easy to use, secure & fast to implement industrial AI.
• APERIO — APERIO validates operational data at scale to improve data accuracy, security, and value, allowing for smarter decisions based on real-time, superior data.

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• Akeyless Security — Akeyless Vault platform built to secure IT and DevOps resources, credentials, and access, on hybrid cloud and legacy environments.
• ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
• Summit Nanotech — Summit Nanotech innovates direct lithium extraction (DLE) processes to economically and sustainably unlock lithium resources globally.

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• Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
• Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
• Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

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• MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
• Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
• Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

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• Lotaris — Lotaris, a Red Herring Global 100 Award Winner, is a global independent in-app commerce provider offering developers the most comprehensive suite of services to support their monetization needs.Delivering apps and services to millions of users on behalf of large enterprise software vendors, Lotaris solutions are also available for smallerindependent developers and game publishers through its in-appCommerce service. Lotaris supports all major open platforms, in-app business models for both purchasing and advertising through any channel, and all major payment methods integrated seamlessly on one award-winning platform.Based in San Francisco, Switzerland, Singapore and Tokyo, Lotaris provides services world-wide for customers and partners including Microsoft, Symantec, Sega, Capcom, Digital River and others. For more details, visit http://lotaris.com.

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• ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.

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• Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
• ARX — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
• twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.

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• Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
• Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
• Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.

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• AuditFile — AuditFile is an information technology company that offers cloud-based auditing solutions for CPA firms.AuditFile's cloud-based solution for CPA firms that enables unparalleled management of the audit process. AuditFile automates key parts of the audit process, from uploading the trial balance to generating financial statements. They'vealso developed proprietary algorithms that help auditors identify potential fraud.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
• PowerReviews — Collect more and better Ratings & Reviews and other UGC. Create UGC displays that convert. Analyze to enhance product experience and positioning.
• RichRelevance — The RichRelevance personalization technology provides personalized customer experiences seamlessly across web, mobile, in-store analytics, website, & email.

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• Mindtrip — Mindtrip operates as an AI assistant that provide travel data that includes maps with suggested places to visit.
• PayNearMe — PayNearMe is a modern and reliable billing and payments platform that lets your customers pay how, when and where they want.
• Leap — Leap is the scalable, turnkey platform for omnichannel retail. Start growing your brick-and-mortar retail footprint today.

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• seventhings — By digitizing all business assets and connecting all relevant data and processes from existing systems into one platform, we help companies to easily track their long-lived assets and to establish a climate neutral inventory management.
• ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
• Gelato — Create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware.

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• Movley — Movley helps firms manufacturing in China build better products through on-the-ground control inspections.
• Kontempo — Kontempo provides embedded payment solutions for B2B e-commerce. Its API's make it easy to offer alternative payment methods, such as BNPL and interest-free installments, to your B2B clients.
• Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.

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• Smiler — Memorable experiences deserve to be captured in high quality. We make it happen. Valuable memories in high quality, for everyone, everywhere.
• Coram AI — Secure your business with cloud based security cameras from Coram AI. Remotely monitor your property with advanced AI security cloud camera systems. Book a demo.
• Meander — Vektor is the career platform for Tech professionals.

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• Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
• SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
• Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

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• ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
• CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
• Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.

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• RWDC Industries — RWDC develops biodegradable bioplastic that can be used to make cutlery, drinking straws and cup lids, foodand beverage packaging, as well as diapers, among other things. It produces medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate(mcl-PHA), which are naturally produced by bacterial fermentation of plant-based oils or sugar. RWDC’s PHA is certified to befully biodegradable in soil, water and marine conditions.
• Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
• Qianyuhui Environmental Protection — Qianyuhui Environmental Protection is a provider of comprehensive solutions for carbon emissions.

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• Nezasa — Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode
• BlocPower — BlocPower is your one-stop-shop for modern, all-electric heating and cooling. Secure big incentives & save up to 40% on energy bills when upgrading to a sleek, comfortable and extremely efficient heat pump system.
• TOAE Security — A global leader in security, technology services, and digital security enablement.

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• Epic Games — Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.
• Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
• Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.